Two years ago, as the bombs began to drop, George Bush promised Afghanistan 'the generosity of America and its allies'. Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing its grip and military skirmishes continue...

The Kosovo crisis is at the heart of the
decade long war drama of the late country that used to be called Yugoslavia. The
symbolic sign of the scope of immensely shallow (mis)understanding of the dead
country’s destiny is (for those of us who still remember) today painfully
visible in CNN headlines: “War in Yugoslavia”.

What “Yugoslavia” the world
is talking about today? The trick with people’s memory and amnesia is maybe
unintentional, but it’s no less misleading.

In late eighties, with the
consolidation of nationalism as the state ideology in Serbia, the propaganda
directed against women grew stronger. It is well known that in periods of acute
crisis, economic repression or marked repression, women are called to turn back
to "home and family"; they are referred to as "the angels of the home earth", as
ideal mothers, as faithful wives… Such propaganda, among other things, aims at
postponing or preventing social tensions, outburst of social discontent caused
by mass lay-offs of working men and women.